Guide to the Don Liddie papers on Signetics - Computer History ...

<strong>Guide</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Liddie</strong> <strong>papers</strong> on Signetics X4609.2008
1983 Manila plant is sold
1983 Nov. 7 Sale of Signetics Gmbh <strong>to</strong> SES employees is announced
1984 Jan.-1992 Dec. <strong>Liddie</strong> is Vice President, Human Resources and
Administration at Signetics
1985 Signetics is <strong>the</strong> first IC company <strong>to</strong> announce a zero defects
warranty on all products
1985 Sig-Fil closes
1988 Jan. 1 Signetics merged in<strong>to</strong> North American Philips Corporation
(NAPC)
1991 Jan. 1 Signetics is a wholly owned subsidiary of NAPC
1992 Feb. Closure of Orem, Utah plant by year end is announced
1992 July Signetics Corporation, a division of North American Philips
Corporation, changes its name <strong>to</strong> Philips Semiconduc<strong>to</strong>rs
1993 Jan.-1995 Aug. <strong>Liddie</strong> is appointed Executive Vice President and Chairman,
Management Committee Philips Semiconduc<strong>to</strong>rs
1995 Aug. <strong>Liddie</strong> retires after 39 years
2008 April 14 <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Liddie</strong> passes away at his home in Sara<strong>to</strong>ga, California
Scope and Content of <strong>the</strong> Collection
The <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Liddie</strong> <strong>papers</strong> on Signetics contain <strong>the</strong> professional records of <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Liddie</strong>. The
records span 1961 through 2006 with <strong>the</strong> bulk of <strong>the</strong> collection spanning 1975 through
1992, when Lidde was Vice President of Corporate Services and <strong>the</strong>n Vice President of
Human Resources and Administration at Signetics. Signetics merged with Philips in
1975, from that date forward in <strong>the</strong> collection Philips material appears. Items of note
include a nearly complete run of Probe, <strong>the</strong> Signetics newsletter, as well as a series of
scrapbooks, which <strong>Liddie</strong> created <strong>to</strong> document <strong>the</strong> his<strong>to</strong>ry of Signetics. The scrapbooks
contain especially unique material related <strong>to</strong> Signetics’ international plants. Of special
interest <strong>to</strong> engineers are data books and failure analysis handbooks. The collection is
arranged in 5 series:
Series 1: Office Files
Series 2: Printed
Series 3: Signetics His<strong>to</strong>ry Scrapbooks
Series 4: Audiovisual and Oversize Materials
Series 5: Ephemera
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